Tyler McAndrew
@tyler-m.bsky.social
fiction writer. debut book MY PRISONER & OTHER STORIES (mad creek books / OSU press, 2025) won the 2024 non/fiction award. https://tmcandrew.com/
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Tyler McAndrew
@tyler-m.bsky.social
· Sep 6
My Prisoner and Other Stories
Muscular and empathetic tales of ordinary Rust Belt Americans striving for hope and tenderness amid the suffering of others.
ohiostatepress.org
my first book, MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES—which won the 2024 non/fiction prize—is available now anywhere books are sold!
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Since launch, we've published 100 pieces, including essays, interviews, reviews, and excerpts, and authors including Pulitzer Prize nominees, Guggenheim fellows, NYT editors, + first-timers, while compensating staff for their work. Can you support our mission?
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Pittsburgh Review of Books
Join me and make a gift to Giving CMU Day 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Since launch, we've published 100 pieces, including essays, interviews, reviews, and excerpts, and authors including Pulitzer Prize nominees, Guggenheim fellows, NYT editors, + first-timers, while compensating staff for their work. Can you support our mission?
givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
hey allright okay, mine won a contest and was recently listed in @electricliterature.com's best short story collections of the year. if you're into melancholic literary realism then maybe this is for you: share.google/sFdhjh5R3KvP...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
hey allright okay, mine won a contest and was recently listed in @electricliterature.com's best short story collections of the year. if you're into melancholic literary realism then maybe this is for you: share.google/sFdhjh5R3KvP...
why in the world would you want to wear jerseys honoring the least legitimate championship in all of professional sports
Sabres fans are for sure going to put an evil curse on these freaks
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
why in the world would you want to wear jerseys honoring the least legitimate championship in all of professional sports
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I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
this is set the night before christmas, but the night before thanksgiving gets a shoutout, so you should all read it today.
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch
It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.
xraylitmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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"Empathy, tenderness, and specificity": So nice to see @tyler-m.bsky.social 's MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES (Ohio State UP) on this list! @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year
electricliterature.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Empathy, tenderness, and specificity": So nice to see @tyler-m.bsky.social 's MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES (Ohio State UP) on this list! @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
pittsburgh friends: next thursday (12/4) i'm going to be reading at mount lebanon public library as part of their 2025 speaker series.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
pittsburgh friends: next thursday (12/4) i'm going to be reading at mount lebanon public library as part of their 2025 speaker series.
"anskan house" by brian evenson.........extremely good story. read it probably like 3 weeks ago now and it's still rattling around in my brain.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"anskan house" by brian evenson.........extremely good story. read it probably like 3 weeks ago now and it's still rattling around in my brain.
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heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year
electricliterature.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
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i missed when this came out earlier in the month, but i wrote a tiny essay about having a book and a baby come into the world at relatively the same time for omnium gatherum quarterly, the lit journal for alums of the Community of Writers workshop: ogquarterly.org#mcandrew
Omnium Gatherum Quarterly – OGQ: A Project of the Community of Writers.
ogquarterly.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
i missed when this came out earlier in the month, but i wrote a tiny essay about having a book and a baby come into the world at relatively the same time for omnium gatherum quarterly, the lit journal for alums of the Community of Writers workshop: ogquarterly.org#mcandrew
absolutely despise the fact that i now have to ask myself "was this made by AI?" any time a student turns in something that feels different from their usual work.
the biggest impact AI has had on my life is in how it has sowed a low-level sense of distrust throughout all aspects of my job.
the biggest impact AI has had on my life is in how it has sowed a low-level sense of distrust throughout all aspects of my job.
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
absolutely despise the fact that i now have to ask myself "was this made by AI?" any time a student turns in something that feels different from their usual work.
the biggest impact AI has had on my life is in how it has sowed a low-level sense of distrust throughout all aspects of my job.
the biggest impact AI has had on my life is in how it has sowed a low-level sense of distrust throughout all aspects of my job.
i missed when this came out earlier in the month, but i wrote a tiny essay about having a book and a baby come into the world at relatively the same time for omnium gatherum quarterly, the lit journal for alums of the Community of Writers workshop: ogquarterly.org#mcandrew
Omnium Gatherum Quarterly – OGQ: A Project of the Community of Writers.
ogquarterly.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
i missed when this came out earlier in the month, but i wrote a tiny essay about having a book and a baby come into the world at relatively the same time for omnium gatherum quarterly, the lit journal for alums of the Community of Writers workshop: ogquarterly.org#mcandrew
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They should invent a city where every driver isn't trying to kill cyclists and pedestrians
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They should invent a city where every driver isn't trying to kill cyclists and pedestrians
heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Torrey Peters, and Samanta Schweblin are among our favorites of the year
electricliterature.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
heyyyyyy my book made it onto @electricliterature.com's list of favorite short story collections of the year! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
in the 4.5 hours since we put her down for bed, the baby has woken up 12 times.
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
in the 4.5 hours since we put her down for bed, the baby has woken up 12 times.
i am a known hater and i'm sure the movie will be fine but i don't believe there is any amount of quiet pacing and pretty magic-hour lighting that can possibly make train dreams anywhere near as good as its source material.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
i am a known hater and i'm sure the movie will be fine but i don't believe there is any amount of quiet pacing and pretty magic-hour lighting that can possibly make train dreams anywhere near as good as its source material.
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If you use Gmail, Google may be using your emails to train its AI. Here's how to turn it off:
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you use Gmail, Google may be using your emails to train its AI. Here's how to turn it off:
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
it wasn't a surprise since i already knew they were there but i saw 3 copies of my book in a store the other day
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
it wasn't a surprise since i already knew they were there but i saw 3 copies of my book in a store the other day
made my students read cheever's "the five forty-eight" earlier in the semester and am now seeing its influence all over the second round of stories that they turned in, can i get a hell yeah
i'm re-reading "the five-forty-eight" for my class tonight....really enamored with how cheever tends to characterization here. really wish more contemporary story fiction was this patient and thorough.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
made my students read cheever's "the five forty-eight" earlier in the semester and am now seeing its influence all over the second round of stories that they turned in, can i get a hell yeah
"train choir" is simply one of the best short stories ever written.
Just an absolute emotional knockout of a story. I reread every five years or so and am totally wowed anew every time. Don’t see it mentioned or talked about that often, tho everyone I know who has read it agrees it’s an all-timer.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"train choir" is simply one of the best short stories ever written.
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Often described as a writer’s writer. Stephanie Vaughan. #RIP
i didn't see more than like 2 or 3 stephanie vaughn memorial posts yesterday which i take as a sign that more of you need to put down whatever book you're reading and pick up a copy of Sweet Talk.
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Often described as a writer’s writer. Stephanie Vaughan. #RIP
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really can't recommend strongly enough treating yourself by pausing your life and reading "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog"
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
really can't recommend strongly enough treating yourself by pausing your life and reading "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog"
i didn't see more than like 2 or 3 stephanie vaughn memorial posts yesterday which i take as a sign that more of you need to put down whatever book you're reading and pick up a copy of Sweet Talk.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
i didn't see more than like 2 or 3 stephanie vaughn memorial posts yesterday which i take as a sign that more of you need to put down whatever book you're reading and pick up a copy of Sweet Talk.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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